With Websockets, PHP and JavaScript
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/09/building-real-time-commenting-system/
Great article on modern JS best practices and tools to help you.
http://addyosmani.com/blog/javascript-style-guides-and-beautifiers/
A nice walkthrough of how to use Grunt and QUnit.
http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/04/a-jquery-plugin-with-grunt-qunit
Nice little trick from Jeremy Keith on using JS to conditionally load content.
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/scripts-breakpoints
“This feels to me a lot like how Rails felt back in 2005. A fundamental leap forward and an understanding of where web technology is going. I haven’t felt that way about Node.js or even its higher-level frameworks like Express or Batman. This feels like “The One”, even though I’ve been absorbing the docs and screencasts only for the last 20 minutes.” - highest rated comment from Hacker News
PubSub (or pub/sub) is a popular and very useful design pattern in JavaScript. Here’s a couple simple examples:
http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/04/a-jquery-pub-sub-implementation
A really really tiny implementation of PubSub:
https://gist.github.com/661855
7 Principles of Security
Crockford outlines the basic principles of designing secure software, with a focus on web applications.
The fat arrow is coming to JavaScript. Crockford posts about the new way to write functions in the next version of JS.
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-is-the-meaning-of-this
When loading JavaScript from a third party, do it asynchronously.
Using the Impress.js presentation framework requires front end coding knowledge, but you can make some really unique presentations with it (and they even included my ‘What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?’ deck in there). Note: requires Chrome, Safari or Firefox 10.
http://www.paulund.co.uk/no-more-powerpoint-i-have-impress-js
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